Kylie Morris
‘I can’t thank you enough, Mr Trump’
If Donald Trump wins the New Hampshire primary, layers of smugness will settle around him like a protective carapace.
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Could Walz and Harris force ‘weird’ Trump out of the race?
Is Kamala Harris’s pick as Presidential running-mate a disaster for ‘weird’ Donald Trump? Matt Frei discusses the rise of Tim Walz with senior figures from Democrats Abroad and Republicans Overseas.
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4m
US House Speaker ousted for first time in history
There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party.
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4m
Is this the ‘single greatest witch hunt of a politician’?
Remember how a few days ago the White House was still saying that NO special counsel was needed to investigate links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Well now there is one.
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Kylie Morris
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Kylie Morris
What Donald Trump did last night…
Donald Trump is hiring. He’s hiring himself as President of the United States and the hundreds of people crowded into the school hall in Manchester, New Hampshire as his cheerleaders.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Times may have changed for Iran – but US Republicans haven’t
As world powers struggle to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme, Republicans in the US could prove the biggest obstacle to an agreement.
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Kylie Morris
Going, going, gone – Democrats lose control of the US senate
So it turns out the midterms did matter, that every vote counted, that politics is still a bloodsport in the US.
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Matt Frei
Second-term Obama – lame duck or lifeless cicada?
You can compare President Obama’s second term with the fate of the cicada swarms that hit Washington in May: a lot of preparation, but within weeks the frenzy has gone.
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Matt Frei
Dubya, where are you?
Despite years in the limelight as president of the US, George W Bush is now proving rather elusive- even in his home state of Texas, finds Matt Frei.
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Matt Frei
Guns in America: was Sandy Hook a tipping point?
It could be one of the biggest issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. Can the US let go of its guns? Matt Frei takes a look in the first of our special series, Guns in America.
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Matt Frei
Susan Rice: another victim of the Washington game
Why did Susan Rice pull out of consideration as America’s next secretary of state? Was she too strident, too forceful – or did she simply fail to play the Machiavellian game of Washington politics?
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Matt Frei
On the brink of the fiscal cliff – and it’s no road movie
No more Mr Nice Guy from Barack Obama as America peers over the fiscal cliff – but what are the implications?
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Matt Frei
Obama: Can the good candidate become a great president?
His place in history is already assured – but can a greyer, wiser Barack Obama, less crushed by expectation, finally live up to his promise as president?
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Matt Frei
‘If a state doesn’t swing, the voter’s phone won’t ring’
In the final feverish days of the campaign both Obama and Romney are outdoing each other in air miles, rally counts, hands shaken, cheeks squeezed and flossed smiles flashed across this vast country.
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Matt Frei
Debate? This was more like Fight Club
Round two in the US presidential debates and both candidates came out fighting. This time, with so much at stake, Obama and Romney got personal. And it wasn’t nice.